Donald Trump’s running mate has brought the new right to the brink of power.

If you find that hard to believe, cast your mind back to September 2023 when then-hopeful Suella Braverman made her first big ...

“You get the impression that people are jockeying for power, that they’re positioning themselves without actually positioning ...

Across the Atlantic, Kamala Harris has built her campaign for the presidency on “joy”, to some effect. Now Labour insiders ...

Nvidia’s value to investors soared in response: at the beginning of this year it reached a market capitalisation of £2.56 ...

Tony Blair has long reflected on leadership: what it means, how to do it well, how to cope with its pressures, when to ...

Ten weeks later, the whole world has changed as Dems hum joyously along to Kamalot. Kamala Harris ’s inspired ...

It may therefore be galling to learn from Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves’s new survey, Born to Rule, that these aren’t just ...

Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine. Identifying how many ...

The report reveals a web of dodged culpability and confused responsibility. By Megan Kenyon In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire broke out at a high-rise social housing block in west London. The ...

The BBC Radio 4 podcast about conspiracy thinking is back, and things are even weirder. By Rachel Cunliffe It’s been three and a half years since insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol, convinced ...

Alicia Vikander and Jude Law excel in Firebrand, an ahistorical retelling of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine Parr. By David Sexton Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived. Thus, ...